Is Racism On The Increase In This Country, This Person Seems To Think So?

[anotheoldgit]

So what she was spat on so are many other people spat on by disgusting species of humanity.

There was once a woman in my area who would spit on anyone who past her on the street, but then this woman had a mental illness.

/// We are also frighteningly vulnerable because anti-racists have given up on the struggle, unlike feminists or those fighting for gay rights. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission is, frankly, moribund and we could, but don’t, use the web to campaign against racial prejudices. Where is our Peter Tatchell? Where, indeed, is the next generation Anthony Lester, the human rights supremo who pushed through race relations legislation? ///

Where is our Peter Tatchell Yasmin Alibhai Brown asks, they are everywhere I say.

[Old_Geezer]

Was there a link that got missed ?

I suspect it is natural to assume one is being singled out for one's "favourite" reason when being mistreated. It may be true, or she may be mistaken. May just be a general abuse situation.

[Gromit]

I am guessing this is from the Daily Mail.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh I don't know about that. AOG is a fanatical Grauniad reader.

[Fitzer]

It's from the Independent and the quote is in the first line of the article here http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/inyourface-racism-has-returned-and-few-are-fighting-against-it-9850050.html I shan't bother trying to type it here as the censor wouldn't allow it.
So she wasn't just spat on but spat on with a racial insult.

[agchristie]

Some would like to believe racism is on the increase in this country but there again there can be no other term to use if you dare oppose the approval of the building of a mosque for example.

[Zeuhl]

So Yasmin Alibhai Brown has been abused and spat at.

And she was in 1972.

Deplorable as that is, I'm not sure these anecdotal stories add very much to our understanding or insights

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// I am guessing this is from the Daily Mail. ///

You are wrong again, I missed out the link by mistake it was from the Independent thank you Fitzer for providing it.

[slaney]

According to a British Social Attitudes survey there was a fall in self reported racial prejudice between 1983 to 2001, and a rise since then...
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/338779/selfreported-racial-prejudice-datafinal.pdf

[Baldric]

I note the Union Flag at the start of the Independent Link is upside down, but then it's not the only one in this thread that's like that.

[-Talbot-]

Now those at the top – with the exception of Diane Abbott



I lost interest when reading that.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// I note the Union Flag at the start of the Independent Link is upside down, but then it's not the only one in this thread that's like that. ///

It is becoming even more popular.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/533736/Falkland-Islands-Royal-Navy-South-America-Parlasur-summit-sovereignty

[Svejk]

She's a vile woman who seems to despise this country and its citizens. Surely she'd be happier if she lived elsewhere, I know I would be if she did.

[Baldric]

Yes, but they don't appear to actually be attached to a RN Vessel, just there to add a bit of colour in the corner, but still not good enough!

[mikey4444]

Yes of course racism is on the increase ! It used to be black people, or brown people...now its anybody who isn't white and goes to the wrong place of worship. Twas ever thus. I know plenty of people that say things like

"I am just popping out to the P***s for a pint of milk"

Despite the said shop owners being Hindu. Is Britain racist ?...do bears not pee in the woods ?

[sp1814]

I'm not sure that racism is on the increase. Certainly overt racism is becoming like smoking in public places. It's something the general public really frown upon, and to me, that's laudable.

What I believe is on the increase (and very few people seem to readily acknowledge this) - is blatant ageism.

Picture 1975 - Kenneth Kendall reading the news before Morecombe and Wise or Stanley Baxter...politicians such as Edward Heath or Harold Wilson in the commons. Sports stars such as Henry Cooper and Stirling Moss on World Of Sport (hosted by Dickie Davis, a man not 'in his prime')

The pop charts featured Gary Glitter, Noddy Holder and Alvin Stardust, none of whom would be asked for I.D. at their local watering hole.

Basically the country was a lot 'older' back then. Now, the middle aged and elderly are shunted out of vision, disparaged and generally treated as non-persons.

And it's not just in the media - socially the elderly are excluded, and shown very little respect. I know this is a bit of a hobby horse of mine, but I think it's a sad situation when extended families break down to such an extent that the elderly have to rely on social care just to get by.

This was not the case (or rather, not to the same extent) back when I was growing up (the 70s).

It's the silent 'ism' that no-one talks about.

[-Talbot-]

I think being offended on behalf of others is massively on the increase.

[mikey4444]

Dive Buddy ::::

"Whole swathes of the country resemble a suburb of Karachi more than they do anything recognisably British"

Really ? There are swathes of Britain that never see a non-white face from one year to another. Muslims comprise less than 5% of Britain's population, and yet you spout nonsense like that above ?

"Traditional British culture is being slowly swamped by entirely alien ones"

What ? ... Just because we no longer eat Boiled Beef and Carrots at every meal and spend our spare time Morris Dancing ?

Drivel !